John Clarence O'Leary Simms
The Orientals and the Ethiopian

ArtistMexican, born 1949
CultureMexican
Titles
  • The Orientals and the Ethiopian
  • Los Chinos y El Etiope
Date1979
PlaceCordoba, Veracruz, Mexico
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/8 × 9 1/4 in. (23.8 × 23.5 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Houston Hispanic community and the Wortham Foundation, The Brown Foundation, Inc., the Frees Foundation, and the Comite Patriotico Mexicano
Object number91.189
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenancePedro Meyer, Mexico City; purchased by MFAH, 1991.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
in pencil on verso upper left "84".
Signed and inscribed in pencil on verso sheet, lower left: "O'Leary" and at lower right: " ' LOS CHINOS Y EL ETIOPE '/ CORDOBA, VERACRUZ/ 1979".

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